Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...presupposes that the people know exactly-and will say so. Can his supposedly unweighted questions draw sufficiently weighty answers? Gallup can cite example after example to indicate that they can and do. On his own ratings the people were three months ahead of Congress on the draft in 1940, nine months ahead on repeal of the neutrality embargo, two years ahead on spreading the income-tax burden from 4 to 40 million U.S. citizens. They advocated revision of the Wagner Act long before Congress passed the Taft-Hartley law. If Congress were legislating according to Gallup Poll preferences...
...boom in farm land reached a familiar milestone. After nine years of steady climbing, said the Department of Agriculture, farmland prices had finally hit the peak reached in the post-World War I land boom. Prices rose 7% last year to 205 (1935-1939 equals 100), the 1920 top. And in 32 states, particularly in the southwest where irrigation had increased productivity, land values had long overshot their post-World War I mark...
Either Roy Meears or Jim Gabler will pitch for the Freshmen today at Andover, where Warren Berg's nine tackle what is probably the strongest prep school squad in the area...
Pitchers aren't supposed to hit, but Bo Farmer stepped from the mound to the plate yesterday and slammed a long triple to help his Eliot House nine down Dunster, 9 to 7. Johnny Young shared the hurling chores with Farmer for the Elephants...
...best baseball team in the Eastern League will play here at 3:45 o'clock today. Navy, which has beaten three major league teams as well as shutting out Yale, will provide the opposition as Dolph Samborski's nine attempts to snap a two game losing streak...